ATLANTA – Shirley Akrasih, an associate attorney in Troutman Pepper’s Labor + Employment Practice Group, has been selected to join the 2022 class of National Employment Law Council (NELC) Academy Fellows. The NELC Academy provides advanced skills training and mentoring for minority employment defense lawyers with less than four years of experience practicing management-side labor and employment law.
After a highly competitive process, NELC Academy Fellows are chosen based on their high potential for success and commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in management-side employment law. Fellows will have direct interaction with in-house labor and employment lawyers from major corporations and leading minority labor and employment defense lawyers from across the country and will be partnered with an experienced attorney mentor.
“We are excited for Shirley to represent Troutman Pepper through the NELC Academy program where she will gain invaluable skills and continue to grow in her career,” said Matt DelDuca, leader of the firm’s Labor + Employment Practice Group.
Akrasih graduated from Howard University School of Law, where she earned her JD and served as the staff editor for the Howard Law Journal. Prior to joining Troutman Pepper, Akrasih worked as a Federal Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Legal Clerk for an American insurance company. She helped federal lobbyists with drafting, amending, and monitoring legislation, regulations, declaratory rulings, and...
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